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Yeah I’m not sure how this action would be beneficial to Musk.
by adastra22 2y ago
Yeah I’m not sure how this action would be beneficial to Musk.
- dc396 2y agoFear.
- jesterson 2y agoFear of what?
- throwaway5752 2y agoFear of being fired by unfavorably reviewing political allies of the current administration. A basic form of political corruption.
- adastra22 2y agoThey’ve already been fired…
- out-of-ideas 2y agonot all of them; what is happening is retaliation to previous decisions and a strong-arm to any whom are left to cater to their wants vs properly, fully doing their jobs, or be "randomly" fired in cuts. i put randomly in air quotes cuz we're all just plebs and will never know the full truth
- anon7000 2y agoSure, and now they can be replaced with regulators who are more “aligned” with Musk’s ideas — definitely no opportunity for Musk to make a decision that could make his companies billions. Let’s stop defending this tech CEO wet dream of applying “move fast and break things” to the federal government.
- adastra22 2y agoThat’s nor how hiring works in the federal government.
- kujnetyr 2y agoa few weeks ago if you described how firing is currently happening, almost anyone would have said "that's not how firing works in the federal government" yet here we are
- adastra22 2y agoI would have described it this way. This is and always was a a way in which firing could happen. You zero a budget and they people under it are let go. Hiring necessarily has more steps involved.
- dralley 2y agoHow did Marko Elez get re-hired.
- kurikuri 2y agoGetting rid of reviewers of his stuff does 2 things: the first is obscure any existing observations, the second is to increase the chance that a Musk-friendly person will be in this position later. The only way this could cost him would be if the government retaliates, which there is clearly no appetite for (and he could probably fire the people perusing a response anyways).